I recently learned what it really means when people say space is constantly expanding. At first I thought it just meant more matter is getting created on the outer areas of the universe or something. But it’s moreso space in the spacial sense is expanding between everything, like a balloon being inflated. This opened up a realm of stuff I hadn’t thought about, with my brain struggling to comprehend how there is finite ‘space’ in that sense. Like how does existence itself have a limit to size? For distance as a concept to exist, the space between atoms has to be finite, and doesn’t break down infinitely. But my brain can’t comprehend this, similar to how it can’t comprehend there being nothing before the big bang. It obviously can’t be infinite because there’d be no existsnce as we know it, but how can it be finite and exist at all?
I guess the question is, how is there a limit to the space between atoms?
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Because the atoms repel each other. There’s little bits called electrons that push each other away very strongly at close distances.
If you do push them together hard enough, boom- that’s nuclear fusion. You’ve created a new, bigger element. In other words two pieces of matter cannot occupy the same space at same time.
If you’re still curious I recommend reading into this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermolecular_force
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